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SUMMARY:Introduction to the Pyramid Analytics BI Platform
DESCRIPTION:Microsoft SQL Server offers one of the best integrated data management platforms for Business Intelligence, from the core RDBMS though associated tools such as Integration, Reporting, Analysis and Master Data Services. The Microsoft BI front end tools however suffer from being fragmented, overly complex and / or lacking in functionality and ability to exploit the data platform.
Pyramid Analytics address these issues with an integrated suite of modules for analysis, and report writing, coupled with a server based management engine that makes deploying sophisticated BI solutions to large numbers of users a snap.
This session will introduce you to the Pyramid Analytics Platform and Architecture and demonstrate some of its innovative and game changing capabilities, from analytics to dashboards to reporting, with full central management and control.
Ian Macdonald
Principal Technologist, Pyramid Analytics
Ian has over 25 years’ experience in the Business Intelligence software market, having held senior technical, product management and marketing roles with Information Builders, Hyperion Solutions, HP and Microsoft. Today he leads the technical team developing Pyramid Analytics’ business in the UK and Ireland.
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Introduction to the Pyramid Analytics BI Platform

Microsoft SQL Server offers one of the best integrated data management platforms for Business Intelligence, from the core RDBMS though associated tools such as Integration, Reporting, Analysis and Master Data Services. The Microsoft BI front end tools however suffer from being fragmented, overly complex and / or lacking in functionality and ability to exploit the data platform.
Pyramid Analytics address these issues with an integrated suite of modules for analysis, and report writing, coupled with a server based management engine that makes deploying sophisticated BI solutions to large numbers of users a snap.
This session will introduce you to the Pyramid Analytics Platform and Architecture and demonstrate some of its innovative and game changing capabilities, from analytics to dashboards to reporting, with full central management and control.
Ian Macdonald
Principal Technologist, Pyramid Analytics
Ian has over 25 years’ experience in the Business Intelligence software market, having held senior technical, product management and marketing roles with Information Builders, Hyperion Solutions, HP and Microsoft. Today he leads the technical team developing Pyramid Analytics’ business in the UK and Ireland.

Pyramid Analytics

Pyramid aims to deliver a BI platform that provides business users with the tools needed to gain insights about their business in a way that is natural, does not require any particular technical skills while allowing a depth of analysis comparable to the best applications available. Furthermore, in a singular tool, we’ve set out to satisfy both the casual data consumer as well as the power analyst.